Pamphlets on English architecture assembled by George Gilbert Scott
Contributors: Oxford Architectural Society; Architectural Society of the Archdeaconry of Northampton; Architectural and Archaeological Society for the County of Buckingham; St. Albans Architectural and Archaeological Society
Published: 1833
Place of publication: [England]
Language: eng
Subjects: Church architecture; Church buildings; Conservation and restoration; Architecture
Other titles: Records of Buckinghamshire.
Notes: Eighty pamphlets and offprints chiefly on English architecture. Emphasis is on the medieval period, with some material on 19th-century English architecture, the restoration of medieval buildings, and various antiquarian subjects. They are contained in 6 v. in 19th-century bindings. Each vol. has a paper spine label giving partial contents, with fuller contents written in pencil on the front fly leaf.

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Sir George Gilbert Scott was a major architect of the Victorian Gothic Revival, and a noted restorer of medieval buildings. His commissions include the Albert Memorial, and St. Pancras Station and Hotel.

Vol. 1 includes the following unanalyzed publications: [20] plates illustrating metalwork, medieval and Renaissance, drawn and engraved by Henry Shaw and published by W. Pickering in 1832 and 1833 -- Old Testament history, illustrated by a series of designs by an English artist about AD 1310, drawn from a ms. now in the old Royal Collection, British Museum [Royal 2 B VII : Queen Mary Psalter] ... by N.H.J. Westlake. London : Masters ; Oxford : J.H. Parker, 1858.

Vol. 2 includes the following unanalyzed publications of the Oxford Architectural Society: Reports of meetings from July 1853 to May 31, 1856 -- Report from Jan. MDCCCXLVIII. to July MDCCCXLIX : the rules, list of members and reports of meetings -- Annual report for MDCCCXLVII : the rules, list of members, and reports of meetings -- Proceedings of the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture: Easter & Trinity terms, 1846. Vol. 2 also includes the following unanalyzed publication: Handbook to the parish of Titsey / by Granville Leveson Gower (London : Wyman, 1869).

Vol. 3 includes the following unanalyzed publications: On the population and taxation of Colchester, taken for collecting a quindime, 29th Edward I (1301) / C.H. Hartshorne. The life and times of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester / Walter Farquhar Hook.

Vol. 6 includes the following unanalyzed publications: The fifth report of the Architectural Society of the Archdeaconry of Northampton, read at the general public meeting, October 17, 1848 -- An account of the annual meeting and excursion of the Architectural and Archaeological Society for the County of Buckingham, held at Aylesbury, July 27th, 1854. Articles appended: On the traces of ancient roads in the County of Buckingham / W.J. Burgess. The destroyed and desecrated churches of Buckinghamshire / W.H. Kelke. On the history and antiquity of Mursley / Thomas Horn -- Records of Buckinghamshire, by the Architectural and Archaeological Society for the County of Buckingham (1854).

Vol. 6, unanalyzed publications, cont. Records of Buckinghamshire, by the Architectural and Archaeological Society for the County of Buckingham (1854). Includes articles: Ancient British gold coins found in Whaddon Chase. Antiquities of the Chiltern Hills / W.J. Burgess. Aylesbury Church in 1848 : architect's report / Geo. Gilbert Scott. A letter from G.G. Scott, Esq., on the supposed Saxon work at Iver and at Wing. Church bells / Robert Eaton Batty. The desecrated churches of Buckinghamshire [cont.]. Drayton Beauchamp / by W. Hastings Kelke. St. Mary's, Ashendon, Bucks. / by Frederick George Lee. Earth-works at Hampden and Little Kimble / by Boughey Burgess. Hilldesden Church -- Transactions of the St. Albans Architectural and Archaeological Society (1851). Includes article: Notice of a seal formed of bone, discovered in the Abbey Church, St. Albans ... / by Albert Way.